"Among photographers working today nobody comes close to Anthony Friedkin and his unique ability to capture the essence of surfing culture and evoke the power and mystery of the ocean. If we let go and simply revel in the beauty and bite of Friedkin’s photographs we will learn a thing or two about life."

– Julian CoxFormer photography curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and now Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of Ontario

"There's something beautifully imprecise about these black & white images, almost organic, the way they look. After seeing millions of super-saturated super sharpened surf pictures-these are almost...dreamy."
-- Rusty Preisendorfer
Pro surfboard shaper and founder of Rusty, one of the sport's
largest surfboard and surfwear labels.

"The word surf is for people disconnected from the normal society, with a different perception of themselves. The ocean changes them to a beatnik-like natural sense of the self. Looking at Friedkin’s book you get the separation of differences, human nomads in a bigger world than themselves, lost in their Blue World on the surface of the waves. His photos feel like your are there in their Ocean cult."

--John Van Hamersveld
Graphic artist, illustrator and surfer who designed
the poster for the surf film The Endless Summer in 1963